Feeling old

Apparently in the near future, folks will be able to download digital comics to their iPhones and iPod Touches.

It's not a service I'd make use of, even if I had a piece of iTechnology, which I don't. I don't have the eyes for it. (I'm one of those folks who, when I'm looking at the computer first thing in the morning, likes to hit that handy Ctrl+ a couple of times.) I'm not that old, I just have poor eyesight.

My daughters, however--that might be something they'd be interested in. The thirteen-year-old puts pictures and little movies on her MP3 player. (It's not an iAnything, she's too cagey about her money for that, but it's decent.) They each have an old GameBoy, something I've also never been able to use because the screen is so damn small. If they had cell phones they'd be texting. They'd be fine with reading comics on a tiny little screen, I'm guessing.

But the older I get, the more I find myself thinking about technology being more accessible. My eyes aren't going to be getting any better, after all. Neither are anybody else's, generally speaking. Some of it, of course, is just a matter of being used to dealing with small text on small screens, but there comes a point when, for some of us (the section of the population who isn't getting any younger--which inclues most comic fans :)) it's simply not going to be possible to make use of that sort of a product.